Set Theory

Some history and biography resources

• General history and biography
  • MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
  • Women Mathematicians (Agnes Scott College)
  • Women in Math (University of Oregon)
  • History of Mathematics (David E. Joyce, Clark University)
  • History of Mathematics (Trinity College, Dublin)
  • History/Biography from the Math Forum

Historical and memorial articles (mainly from MacTutor Archive)

• Stefan Banach, 1892-1945, functional analysis, measure theory, Banach-Tarski paradox, students.
• Felix Bernstein, 1878-1956, ordinals, theorem on equivalence of sets, applied math.
• Amer Beslagic, 1959-1997, set theoretic topology: memorials by Ronnie Levy and Mary Ellen Rudin
• George Boole, 1815-1864, logic and boolean algebras.
• Émile Borel, 1871-1956, theory of functions of a real variable, game theory, Borel sets.
• Cesare Burali-Forti, 1861-1931, Burali-Forti paradox.
• Georg Cantor, 1845-1918, foundations of set theory, ordinal and cardinal numbers.
• Paul Cohen, 1934- , creator of ``forcing'' in proof of independence of the Axiom of Choice.
• Dedekind, Richard, 1831=1916, redefinition of irrational numbers in terms of Dedekind cuts, corresponded with Cantor on set theory and the infinite.
• Paul Erdös, 1913-1996, many fields including the partition calculus.
  • Erdos (MacTutor Archive)
  • Erdos Number homepage
  • Memorial by Ivars Peterson
  • Memorial by Melvin Hendriksen
• Fraenkel
• Frechet
• Gentzen
• Gödel
• Hadamard
• Hausdorff
• Helly
• Hilbert
• Konig
• Kuratowski
• Lowenheim
• Luzin
• Mazurkiewicz
• Mostowski
• Novikov
• Rado
• Ramsey
• Mary Ellen Rudin, 1924- , set theoretic topology, especially Dowker spaces. She has an AWM profile from her stint as a Noether Lecturer in 1984.
• Russell
• Schonflies
• Sierpinski
• Skolem
• Tarski
• Tychonoff
• Ulam
• Venn
• von Neumann
• Zermelo
• Zorn.